Iowa Old Press

Weekly Times
Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa
Thursday, May 24, 1860

IOWA MATTERS

     HENRY COUNTY - Burglary - On Monday night week the clothing store of Eshelman & Wise, in Mt. Pleasant, was entered by burglars, and two hundred dollars' worth of clothing taken. During the same night, a grocery store was broken into and $5 in specie extracted. The thieves next tried a dry good store, but being frightened by a dog they left and commenced operations on a drug store. But little was taken from the latter of any value. They made use of false keys and crowbars.
    POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY - Murderer Arrested. - The Council Bluffs Nonpariel gives the particulars of the arrest of McComb, the Ottumwa murderer. The facts of the case are: a man stopping at the Pacific House in that town had a purse containing $160 stolen. The City marshal tracked the thief to Omaha City, where he procured his arrest, and he was lodged in jail to await a requisition from the Governor of Iowa. The Nebraska officials learning that the prisoner was none other than McComb, put him in a carriage, crossed over into the State, and started for Ottumwa, hoping to reach there unmolested and secure the $1000 reward. The Marshal of Council Bluffs, learning of this proceeding, set out in pursuit, overtook the parties,  and carried their man back to Council Bluffs, where he is now in custody.
     Large Train - A train of thirty-five wagons, each drawn by from three to five yoke of cattle, passed through Council Bluffs on Saturday week. The emigration for four weeks at that point amounts to 827 wagons and 2534 men.
    LINN COUNTY - Sudden Death - A Mr. Metcalf, living near Marion, was found dead in his bed last Thursday morning. His wife knew nothing of it until she awoke in the morning and found that he was a corpse. His disease was an affection of the heart.
     MAHASKA COUNTY - Suicide - John Lichenheld, German, of late residing in Oskaloosa, was found dead about a mile east of that place last Wednesday, with a pistol in clenched hand, and his head shattered by a shot, which had been fired into his mouth. He was subject to fits of derangement, and had threatened many times to destroy himself
     LEE COUNTY - Arresting Fugitives - The Keokuk Gate City states that a man of the name of Grab, and some accomplices recently spent a good portion of the Sabbath in storing their minds and filling their hearts with the teachings of the Doctor of the South American Tract Society and the Democratic party, and sallied forth with their rifles in the after part of the holy day to put their principles into practice by the arrest of four men who were seeking to regain their freedom. The Grubbers received a reward of five hundred dollars for the Sunday job.
     JEFFERSON COUNTY - Accident - A party of three men passed through Fairfield a few days since on their way to California. Just after leaving that village an accidental discharge of a gun sent its contents into the shoulder of one of them, injuring it so badly that it will probably be necessary to amputate it.
     CLINTON COUNTY - Wheatland - The little village of Wheatland, in the western part of Clinton county, on the Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad, has nearly doubled its population during the past year. It is two years old and has about two hundred inhabitants. The Wheatland Times has started a few months ago, and is now published by H.J. Farnum, formerly of Elgin, Ill.
     Wheatland has three warehouses, owned by Bissell, Carter & Co. and a store house recently built by Bennett & Haight. The warehouse of Bissell, Carter, & Co. has just been completed and is very commodious. M.L. Rogers, Esq., Postmaster, has built a store during the past year, with a hall over it, 20 by 40 feet. J.A. Hicks & Co. have enlarged their store, and added a store room; E. Barber, M.L. Rogers, E.M. Whipple, and others have built themselves private residences; and shoe, harness and tin shops have helped expand the ambitious young town. Dr. Thomas D. Gamble has opened a drug store. A German Presbyterian Church is nearly completed. Geo. M. Schicker has filled with goods by Mr. O'Connor.- W.M. Magden, Esq., attorney at law, has opened an office at Wheatland. M.L. Munson still takes in strangers.
     Yankee Run (creek) runs through the southern of the village of Wheatland, and large fish from the "Wapsie" often navigate the creek when the water is high. Two years ago a pickerel weighing twenty-four pounds, was caught at Wheatland.
    JACKSON COUNTY- Maquoketa - A steamboat of about one hundred tons burden, built expressly to navigate the Maquoketa, is on its way from Pittsburg to the city of Maquoketa, at the head of navigation. It will probably arrive before the 20th of this month. The leading citizens of that little interior city are sanguine that this enterprise will prove a success. Should their hopes be realized in this matter, Maquoketa will one day become a large town. Its business is reviving.
     Dr. H. Holt, formerly a publisher and editor in Dubuque, and more recently of the Patent office in the city of Washington, has settled in Maquoketa and resumed the practice of medicine. He is a well educated man of highly polished manners. During the last few months, Rev. P. Blackeman, a graduate of Yale College, has been settled, as pastor of the Congregational church of Maquoketa, and Rev. Moses Noerr, a recent graduate of some Eastern institute, as pastor of the Presbyterian Church. The Methodists have no pastor. The Baptists are supplied every other Sabbath by Rev. Mr. Cummings, who resides at LaMotte, in the same county.
     Prof. Mead, an experienced teacher, has an excellent school at Maquoketa - a decided advantage to the place.
     At the head of the municipal government of Maquoketa, is S.S. Germond, Esq. ,formerly of Dunkirk, N.Y.- a man whose name is not unknown in the political history of Chautauqua county.
     J.E. Goodenow, the pioneer settler of Maquoketa, and one of the most worthy men of the place, is still keeping the Decker House.
     The Maquoketa Sentinel, it is rumored, will be revived immediately after the next Baltimore Convention, should the united and unterrified Democracy succeed in making a nomination.
     Mr. Z. Livermore of Maquoketa, is doing something to improve the breed of horses. - His "Osceola" a Black Hawk Morgan, grandson of the original, is a beautiful horse. Two of his colts took the first and second premiums last year at the Illinois State Fair. Jackson County raises many fine horses as well as blooded cattle.
     LEE COUNTY - Awful Death- The Keokuk Gate City learns that a little daughter of a Mr. Fox of that city, four or five years of age, fell into the vault of a privy on the 13th inst., and was suffocated before she could be taken out.
     SCOTT COUNTY - New Ferry Line. - Messrs. Church & Jones, of Davenport, are building a ferry boat at that city to ply between Buffalo and Andalusia.
    MUSCATINE COUNTY- Bigamy - One B.W. Marshall was tried and convicted last Friday at Muscatine on the charge of having two wives.
     MITCHELL COUNTY - Editorial Retirement - A.K. Moulton, who for a year past has ably edited the North Iowan, retires from the field, leaving his former partner sole proprietor of the establishment.
     HOWARD COUNTY - Lynching - Goff, the horse thief and counterfeiter who was recently arrested and taken to Freeport, Ill, for trial, was twice hung until nearly dead, in order that a confession might be drawn from him. To save his life, he admitted guilt as to counterfeiting, but not as to horse stealing.

     THE undersigned have noticed with indignation the action of the Dubuque Medical Society, and of the Iowa State Medical Society, which has just closed its session in this city, in relation to Dr. Horr. We understand that the cause of this action is some violation of purely medical ethics. Inasmuch as the results of these proceedings are to prevent the patrons of Dr. Horr, during his absence and  even in cases of emergency, from employing any other physician who may be a member of this Society, without first dismissing him, and also to prevent the friends of Dr. Horr who employ members of the Society from calling him in as a consulting physician, when they desire to do so, we, as his patrons and friends, deem it our privilege to protest against the right of these societies to act as they have done. Human life may be again, was we are informed it has, sacrificed to the abstractions of medical etiquett.  We do not admit the authority of any voluntary medical association to impugn the character or standing of a physician, by refusing to recognize him as such, for an act which involves neither moral turpitude nor professional incapacity. We understand also that the act complained of has long since been retracted and reparation made therfor by Dr. Horr.- Under these circumstances we think the proceedings were arrogant and precipitate and impose a needless inconvenience on that portion of the community who may choose to employ the medical fraternity. The public cannot be expected to enter into the technical squabbles of physicians, and may attempt to force them on the public, as in the present instance, simply re-acts upon those who make them the subject of comment. Our confidence in D.r Horr as a man and a physician is certainly not impaired by the action of these societies.
     Wm. McLean, W.H. Robbins, G.H. Otte, H.B. Glover, Wm. Joshua Barney, R. Edwards, F.B. Wilkie, D.W. Cram, Austin Adams, Wm. Andrew, J.B. Dorr, Alfred Tredway, J.T. Jarrett, M.W. Smith, T.A. Spottswood, James Mullin, H. Wybrant, Jno P Quigley, C.W. Arthur, L.W. Jackson, Wm Carter, Wm H Hervey, Wm B Edwards, F.V. Goodrich, John C. Higginson, J.E. Erdman, E.D. Sweet, A. Keesecker, H.J. Goff, Joseph S. H. oper, H. A. Littleton, W.W. Lake, Jno Wm Smith, H.B. Baker, C.J. Chapline, R.J. Gibbs, E. Spottswood, J. Darling, M.L. Stout, T. Belfield, G.P. Abel, A Bayliss, John D. Jennings, Francis Doyle, J.B. Lane, Horace Poole, A.H. Dillon, jr, C.C. Hewitt, John W. Taylor, Benj P Power, J.S. Covel, G.R. West, C.P. Redmond, W.D. Gatchel, P.W. Crawford, W.W. Wormwood, James Huff, W.J. Dois?n, Jefferson Farmer, Isaac Evans, C.H. Remington, Thos. Levins, H.S. Jennings, J.M. Robinson.

     SUDDEN DEATH - Friday morning Mr. Charles Warren, the well known Conductor on the Illinois Central Railroad, on the arrival of his train, went to his room at the U.S. Hotel in Dunleith, (where he and his wife were boarding), and found the door locked. Supposing that his wife was at breakfast, he went into the dining room, and upon inquiry learned she had not made her appearance. He immediately returned to the room, and upon forcing the door found Mrs. W. upon the bed insensible. Prof. Guilbert from this side was immediately summoned, but on arriving at the bedside he found life extinct. In the Doctor's opinion she must have died of convulsions, as she was subject to attacks of that nature. It is but a few weeks since she came to this place a bride. Mr. Warren's numerous friends deeply sympathize with him in this, his great affliction.

     SALE OF UNCLAIMED GOODS.
    The following lots of goods having remained six months uncalled for, will be sold at public sale to pay present charges and all accruing costs, at the auction rooms of Caffall & Rossiter, May 26th, 1860.
    2 bedsteads, 1 cradle, B.O., 3 chairs, 1 bundle stove pipe, 2 mattresses, 1 lounge, 1 beaureau, 2 stoves marked W. in diamond, Dubuque.
1 Roll roofing paper,          Marked A.S. Cozen.
1 Box Gware                         " T.M. Adams
1 Trunk                                 " J. Moran
1 Box G ware                        " Js. Queen.
1 Box G ware                        " L. Tockey
1 Valise                                 " G.G. Hawthorne.
2 Tomb stones                          Unknown.
1 Reaper, (17 pieces),           " Merill & Co.
1 Box sundries                       " J.R. Bloom.
1 Box sundries                       " J. Hutchens.
1 Lot window sash                 " Unknown
2 Boxes bitters                       " J.C. Bullock
1 Keg                                    " Rev. J.M. Schenider.
                  JACOB SWIVEL, City Marshal.
April 12th, 1860.